Mainly parallel remote execution. Possibly resumption (depending on the task, see gcommer's comment). You might want to look at: https://unix.stackexchange.co

Mainly parallel remote execution. Possibly resumption (depending on the task, see gcommer's comment). You might want to look at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104778/gnu-parallel-vs-i-mean-background-vs-xargs-p#104798 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104778/gnu-parallel... I'll say that field separation / null termination is a bit annoying for xargs/find etc-but more so perhaps for novice users of shell. I do like shell pipelines, but quoting can be nearly.